Tracy Morgan signs up for new comedy pilot

2016-01-18 21:00

Tracy Morgan at the Emmy Awards. (AP)

California - Tracy Morgan may soon be returning to regular television work at the FX network.

FX announced that Morgan will develop and star in a comedy pilot about a career criminal trying to make it back into society after 15 years in prison. Jordan Peele of Comedy Central's Key and Peele is a co-writer of the show's pilot.

Morgan, the former 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live comic, was seriously hurt in a New Jersey highway crash in June 2014 and has been getting back to work in recent months after a long recuperation.